It staggers the mind to think about how many problems faced by people of color could have been addressed with the $19 billion lost to waste

     Besides having difficulty wrapping my head around how much money was spent – and how much was lost – in a cause many reputable political scientists have characterized as “American Adventurism in Afghanistan,” I became angry at the members of Congress who refuse to spend any tax dollars at all to help African Americans in our own country recover from the damage caused by centuries of slavery, racial abuse, and intentional neglect. […]